Tonight Mercury shifts from fiery Aries into calm, steady Taurus.
Mercury relates to our mind: how we perceive, how we process, and how we communicate. We’re shifting from impulsivity, irritation, high energy, movement, and focused desire, into calm, chill, slow stability, and rootedness.
This shift will feel really good tonight given how the day has gone.
Before dawn this morning, Mercury at the end of Aries formed a square to Pluto at the end of Capricorn. This brought the intensity of an Aries mind into challenge with the implacability of a very solid Pluto.
If today has felt challenging, this is why. From the Aries side, we might feel an intense need to reach a goal, only to be stopped completely. From the Plutonian side, we might feel our deepest and most challenging patterns being lit up.
Whatever happens today, it’s likely to feel as if someone turned all the dials up to 11. What’s it gonna take to get through this tail end of Aries Mercury?
Patience. Yes, our patience can feel shredded to one teensy thread. We can still choose to take a deep breath and not explode.
Presence. What’s coming up? Negative self talk? Obstacles from other people or situations we can’t control? We can choose to track what happens without reacting. Or at least, not reacting right now.
Transformation. Is Pluto pointing to a needed change? We can choose to embrace it.
Later, the calm settles in. Mercury is already moving past this intense blocked space. The pressure is already lessening.
In about eight hours, Mercury steps into a really calm and centered space. This will be the time to look back on today and process it. Maybe not all of it, but we’ll be able to say, ‘Well, that was a thing.’
Please note, there are challenges ahead in Taurus. For tonight though, we engage in whatever practices lead into a calm, centered, grounded place.
Steady on.
Title adapted from Jonas Spott
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